GLS15 Host Site Pastor | Kyle Henderson: Anticipation

The Global Leadership Summit will be live via satellite at First Baptist Church in Athens, Texas. Kyle Henderson, pastor of First Baptist Church, is one of our longest serving host site pastors. He also serves with the GLS international ministry throughout Africa. This post describes what his team is experiencing in Athens today. He blogs weekly here.

It’s been 354 days since the GLS has been in Athens, Texas and we can’t wait till the morning. All the meetings, all the planning, and all the phone calls have paid off with a great registration. Today is filled with lots of details of set-up, chair placement, name badge organization and snack displays.

It’s awesome to see so many volunteers caring about the tiny details that make the GLS an event happening in many locations. Our tech team has been fretting over the placement of triangles on the stage to make sure they match the ones on the main stage. We already had two meetings today discussing the perfect location of conference tables.

We shut it all down for 45 minutes and just prayed. We prayed for every seat, for every person attending, for the welcome and registration process. We prayed for the youth room, the snacks and the resources. We prayed bold prayers for the world-wide impact of the Summit. May God use this event to unify his Church.

We are not only expecting God to show up tomorrow, God welcomed us together today.